Cabrini Green Chicago

[JeffATL]

QUESTION: WHY are the brothaz on the stage wearin' them LONG-SLEEVED SHIRTS when it's hot as HELL outside??? :-/

[SexyAzzHell93]

This is in the back of 365 W. Oak I was there. We had a lot of fun.

[totaljett]

Whoa you was there, that's alright. I was thinking how cool and community strengthning this celebration must have been. Isn't that the angle the camera fixes on a window toward the end of the Good Times Show Intro?

[younghaful]

yeah, i am officially old.  I was there.

[totaljett]

Thats cool  :)

[younghaful]

p.s you are right about the camera angel and Good Times.

[qolspony]

They miseducated black people and put them in the projects and then they expect them to do well. How foolish does that sound? It is a surprise things weren't worse. I'd say, get the CHA out of the housing business. Put the responsibility in the tenants hands. Creating community based cooperatives is the way to go.

[Im2pimpin]

I feel you there. Shit be fucked up but thats what the crackers wanted. But this video almost makes me want to cry real talk seeing such joy amongst the black community. I wish it was like that more often

[pheebee5377]

@Im2pimpin whats with the "crackers" talk??? I just LOVE how black people think all white people are the same. This is why racism still exists. You can't let go the fact and NOT ALL white people did the black man wrong. I am Irish. My ancestors were kidnapped by AFRICANS and sold as slaves. Bet you didn't know We don't hate! We don't ask for $

The reason the projects failed is because the people in them don't know how to to act civilized. Maybe if these idiots were separated murders will go down

[rantazz23]

@pheebee5377 are you serious that is the most ignorant shit ever written too bad it was a year ago.

HONESTLY THOUGH PEOPLE, you all including you top commenting black people, need to accept that the white man along with other allies put an entire population BASED ON SKIN COLOUR in a disadvantaged position in this society. when you realise that, you can work together to make it better.

what exactly is civilized? nope didnt think you could define it.

[Thirdgen83]

@Im2pimpin Go tell Obama...

[martinj44]

Pretty sure I just saw Florence from good times in that segment. (1:50)

[cocoapeach]

Her name was Esther Rolle and her character's name was Florida, not Florence. By the way the show was filmed in Los Angeles not Chicago.

[JANEONELOVE]

yeah but she didn't stay long..like what 2 to 3 weeks? and did she do anything..yeah probably but it didn't last because the next mayor don't want nothing to do with this.

[ChiTownfool]

Yea the mayor wants to evict people at 2am and tear down there homes with out having a real plan besides lining his and his cronies pockets with federal and private investors money while forgeting about the poor

[KillaCastro6438]

the revolution is comin, white people beware, fuck all races, Black Power, BpS fuck tha rest, why u think they destroyed the black panthers, cuz that scares white people the most unified black all across the country, it will happen again

[Imerica1]

Simmer down. The white man didn't tear down the Greens, nor did they make it NECESSARY for them, the Taylors, the Ickes, the Horners or any other project in Chicago to need to be torn down. Its the element that people who don't want better of themselves brought to the projects. Lets stop blaming the white man for our own failures. We have the power to change the world around us.

[ChiTownfool]

No I'm white and really think i might have to agree with castro a little bit not with his whole Black stone gangbanger shit or his panther shit but you gota admit both the Daily and his Father are/were racist facshist scum bags

[Imerica1]

There is absolutely no doubt that the Daleys were and are racist. Daley's dad use to run with the mob and had a lot of other unseedy connections while he served. I also think that Jr.had something to do with Harold Washington's unfortunate death, not even a year after he was made the first black mayor in Chicago. But that's just my opinion. Eugene Sawyer was but a useless pawn in waiting. lol

[VolumedMusicMan]

I agree. Daley's dad and the CHA segregated Cabrini Green.

[TooKoolKris]

@Imerica1 I know... it was a black guy who made all of these decisions along with a committee that is also all black. Anyone blaming white man for tearing it down is a dumbass.

[CabriniMobster]

dude what's up not all white people are bad i black but there needs to be harmony in all races

R.I.P. 40 CAL, JAPPA, SOULJA BOY, GUTTA, BIG LOOSE, JUICE, COJACK, TRIPLE SIX, TURTLE G, G-MAC, ELI, BIG NATE, BIG REG, AND DIZZLE (SEE YALL IN HEAVEN)

[hotep99]

whats good fam, but in order to have peace with other races we need to respect and love our selves 1st before we love others....and if they treat us as enemies we need to give them hell...... I lived in the greens for two years and some change one the wild end hey don't forget six pack (RIP!.....went to school with COJACK (RIP) did not know he died....

[WhiteRepublicanAHole]

Your complaining about that, big deal my internet is slow I have to wait tell 12 p.m. to get my mail everyday this shit is horrible! Starbucks went up .25 cents on a Strawberry Frappuccino and my Nissan 300 needs new tires, what the fuck!

[Imerica1]

Oh, what an aweful life you must be living. Starbucks went up a WHOLE .25? Man, and I thought the price of .10 Nowandlaters jumping to .25 was a big deal. (sarcasm...and a lot of it.)

[illslogic]

MAYOR DALEY DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK HE JUST WANTS TO GET RID OF NIGGAS FROM THE NEAR DOWNTOWN AREA, FUCK THIS SHIT I FUCKIN  HATE THIS SHIT. Now niggas should know THESE AIN'T OUR BLOCKS...

[ChiTownfool]

the only way for it to be our blocks is to buy an own our homes on the block but they won;t let that happen

[Lara0074]

WHO won't let that happen...money talks...simple as that...honestly..

[ChiTownfool]

Who has money? The ones who built the buildings the ones who are tearing down the buildings

[illslogic]

THIS SHIT PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF I HATE THAT THEY TEARING DOWN ALL THE PROJECTS THIS SHIT BRINGS TEARS TO ME AND I DON'T EVER FUCKIN CRY. I'm from the Harold Ickes 2330 S. State and only a few buildings aren't vaccant but the Ickes days are numbered. I had some of the best times of my fuckin life on in those projects and I learned a lot about life down there. Con't

[macdaddy112003]

yup b 4 alll dat crazy shit man da fuccen greenz wuz da worst n da 90'z doe shiiit actually everywhere wuz at its wort in da 90'z

[Imerica1]

Jayne Byrne came to Robert Taylor a few years after that with a petting zoo and some rides. :) I was in 2nd or 3rd grade but she really showed up. We need more of her mayoring. (is that a word?)

[chichick2]

No we don't. Fuck Jane Byrne. Remember when she appointed all white people to those CHA board positions and black folks boycotted?

[Imerica1]

OMG... I'm crying. This is the way things are supposed to be now. What in the hell happened?

[illslogic]

Ronald Reagan happen and the rest is history.

[Wwallace67]

So you think Ronald Reagan invented crack?

[cutedude22]

where did these video footage came from? this is valuable footage.

[elginmanman]

ahhhhhhhhhh before all the gangs and drugs.

[jdub76]

They had Gangs and drugs back in the 70's then! It intensified in the 80's and 90's

[yourmomscooch]

thank god, now i just have to go a few blocks form my condo to pick up weed.